Installing SATA DVD burner

[Rdaws]

My friend recently gave me a Lit-on SATA DVD burner and I wanted to put it in my Dell 8300. How do I install the burner with SATA yet my burner that Im replacing it with has IDE connectors?

**I took out my original IDE CD burner, and put in the sata burner..and plugged it in the sata port next to where I plug in my spare sata HD. But when I reboot my pc my OS doesnt load up and in the BIOS it says something like unknown device.

Is it possible to have a IDE cd rom drive +IDE HD+ SATA HD with SATA DVD burner???? If any of that makes sense..



If you need system specs, let me know which ones.

[outlaw2001it]

Check the jumper settings on the back of the DVD burner you just installed, make sure that it's set for slave (if the other is set for master). Here's the information on your computer from Dell's website:
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc..._documentation

Here's the website for Lite-on:
http://www.liteonit.com/global/index...per&Itemid=154

[Foggy]

Go to the BIOS and see if your SATA ports are all active.

[Peter M]

Quote:

Originally Posted by outlaw2001it

Check the jumper settings on the back of the DVD burner you just installed, make sure that it's set for slave (if the other is set for master).

Hello? It's SATA, no such thing there.

[osprey4]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rdaws

Is it possible to have a IDE cd rom drive +IDE HD+ SATA HD with SATA DVD burner???? If any of that makes sense..

Yes, you can mix IDE and SATA on your 8300 as long as the SATA HD is your system drive.

As Foggy said, you need to turn on SATA port 1 in the BIOS (F2 at the blue Dell logo on boot-up).

[outlaw2001it]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peter M

Hello? It's SATA, no such thing there.

My bust, I need to get more sleep before posting replies.

[engracio]

Quote:

Originally Posted by outlaw2001it

My bust, I need to get more sleep before posting replies.

Hehehe know what u mean. That is one thing about PeterM, hard to argue with him when he is right. Seen him slipped one maybe twice in 8 years.

Too bad ECS does not have a mobo like K7S5A, we've hear from him more often.

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[m4rky]

Hi, have you had any luck with your SATA DVD Burner? I am having trouble with mine!

In your BIOS:
- Set all the drives/comtrollers (SATA, IDE etc) to Auto. You can go back into the BIOS later when everything is working and switch the unused ones off.
- Set the boot devices to be from System (not USB)
- Set the boot priority to be your Hard Drive

If it still won't boot press F12 to get to the BIOS boot options menu. You should then be given a list of devices attached and pressing the number of the device should attempt to boot from it.

[m4rky]

My problem is:

Getting a DELL 8300 to boot when you change the drive config isn't fun.
I was given a DELL 8300 minus any drives. So I bought a Samsung SH-S203N SATA DVD burner and a 160GB SATA Hard Drive.

Dell 8300 don't fully understand SATA. It won't boot from a SATA DVD/CD drive.

So I had to install an old IDE CD drive and a USB floppy drive to get XP onto my SATA HD.

But now in Windows XP Pro SP2 the Samsung SATA DVD is recognised but when you pop a disk in it takes forever to recognise the disk and then won't access the data on it correctly. Any ideas?

[osprey4]

SATA optical drives on an 8300 have met with mixed success as best. That being the case, I'm not sure I understand why people insist on installing them, aside from the "SATA is better" myth.